tortuous是什么意思_tortuous怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious;"the Byzantine tax structure"
"Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"
"convoluted legal language"
"convoluted reasoning"
"the plot was too involved"
"a knotty problem"
"got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave"
"tortuous legal procedures"
"tortuous negotiations lasting for months"

marked by repeated turns and bends;"a tortuous road up the mountain"
"winding roads are full of surprises"
"had to steer the car down a twisty track"

not straightforward;"his tortuous reasoning"

中英词源

tortuous 拐弯抹角的

来自拉丁语 tortus,扭曲的，扭成一团的，词源同 turn,torque.-ous,形容词后缀。引申词义拐弯抹角的。

tortuous: tortuous: see torment
tortuous (adj.): late 14c., "full of twists and turns," from Anglo-French tortuous (12c.), Old French tortuos, from Latin tortuosus "full of twists, winding," from tortus "a twisting, winding," from stem of torquere "to twist, wring, distort" (see torque (n.)). Related: Tortuously; tortuousness.

词态变化

副词 tortuously;

权威造句

1. The Lot river follows a winding and tortuous course.: 洛特河的河道蜿蜒曲折。

2. the long, tortuous process of negotiating peace: 漫长而曲折的和平谈判过程

3. They walked through the tortuous streets of the old city.: 他们步行穿过老城区中心弯弯曲曲的街道.

4. We have travelled a tortuous road.: 我们走过了曲折的道路.

5. I wrote tortuous essay for obscure journals.: 我给一些无名杂志写一些拐弯抹角的文章.

近反义词

tortuous passage 曲折通道

tortuous channel 弯曲河道

tortuous flow 紊流

相似短语

tortuous path 曲径，弯路

tortuous pocket 【医】骨下袋

单词分析

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